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The academic paper for those interested: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00585-7

You have the right idea. In some cases the Dead Sea Scrolls were literally shredded- ripped up into small pieces that were sold individually to tourists. The goal here was to ident…

Most of the fragments (sorry don't have a %) could be mapped to a genome. In cases where a fragment could not be mapped it's more likely because of degradation than novel biology. …

Here's the paper for anyone interested https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30552-3#.Xt... I'm one of the middle-authors on this. Happy to try and answer questions.

You should be able to get all the supplies online

The standards for authorship in this study were pretty strict. Something like ~2 supplementary figures just for a co-authorship. Source: I'm in one of the labs on this paper (but n…

Still not applicable to Trump because the U.S. Congress has power of the purse, not the President.

> His compound rate of wealth increase, post paying taxes on the sale, is around ~7.5%. That beats the S&P 500 over that time, which very few professional money managers can do. Ve…

NASA is only trying to keep Mars sterile for 100 years or so, probably doesn't matter much on the scale of terraforming

Both would be illegal* since your keys are info that could deanonymize patient data. However, you would be allowed to store them on your own PC if you follow proper procedures. Thi…

mood, circadian rhythm, ancestry, region of the world, diet type, infection, sex, certain diseases, and probably more!

Why? 32 is a big for a human study. They recruited 32 people that didn't exercise, they didn't choose them after they already had the data.

Even the composition of your microbiome itself can alter your brain chemistry (actually, it's usually called the gut brain axis). The study here used fecal transplant from lean to …

Probably not much at all. SNPs and small indels tend to be have many neighbors with which they're highly correlated. If a variant caller missed a single SNP it's likely that it sti…

The figures in this paper use pretty deceptive scales. To be clear, DeepVariant is 0.5% better than a tool built in ~2010 (GATK), on DeepVariant's best test. GATK is still the stan…

Very small transaction outputs can't be used in practice because they're less than the required transaction fee.

This looks pretty cool!

Strongly agree. POS is just a dream (until someone proves me wrong :P)

He provides three examples where an idiom is sometimes bad and sometimes good... The point of the article is just the classic 'foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...'

Personally I think that the value of (1) Money is extremely dependent on proven track record and the network size. Since the value of (2) and (3) are dependent on (1) I think this …

It's shopworn but good tech doesn't always win. Bitcoin has a big(ish) network of users and a proven codebase. The decentralized nature of blockchains means that they're hard for i…

Definitely, blockchains aren't secure in the way that many Ethereum apps seem to think they are. But for certain types of lower stakes applications (say a log running on a mesh net…